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One of the characteristics of politics is the fact that it is a game. But unlike other games such as football where competing teams have equal number of skillful players in the field of play, political “teams” are not restricted to any number of “players”. As a matter of fact, …

I learned a valuable lesson on Sunday 3rd March 2019 during my participation at the holy mass as a Catholic Christian in one of the parishes in Lagos. On that day, it was time for prayer of the faithful- a major high point of the mass when the congregants pray …

Given my preceding accreditation as a Domestic Electoral Observer by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), I took an early trip on Saturday, 23rd February to a particular polling unit in Lagos, South-west Nigeria, to observe the rescheduled Presidential, senatorial and the House of Representatives elections. On that day, at …

The Nigerian democratic experience seems to be one simmered in violence. The blood of citizens is the oil by which the electoral process runs. The story of political thuggery, ballot box snatching, stuffing of ballot boxes with thumb printed ballot papers and setting of electoral materials ablaze seem cultural in …

“A- na ekwu na okuko a manye onu na nri, ochiri ukwu n’abo tinye (literarily translated as; a fowl is been accused of putting its mouth on a plate of food, yet it went ahead to step on it.). This Igbo adage fittingly typifies the feelings by Nigerians in the morning of Saturday 16th February, 2019 when the INEC …

Any new dominant communications medium leads to new information in society and inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings and powers are distributed and the way collective decisions are made. With just a few days to the general election in the country, the monopolization of the nation’s dominant communications medium-the television …

Any new dominant communications medium leads to new information in society and inevitably changes the way ideas, feelings and powers are distributed and the way collective decisions are made. With just a few days to the general election in the country, the monopolization of the nation’s dominant communications medium-the television …

Like every new invention which comes with opportunities and challenges, there was a veiled agreement among participants at a recent gathering in Lagos, that social media originally created to foster sharing of ideas, thoughts, information, and encourage the building of virtual networks and communities, has turned a nightmare to some of its users …

The irrational vibes coming from the supporters of the controversial suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen, as the Chief Justice of Nigeria by President Muhammadu Buhari and in his place swore-in Justice Tanko Muhammed as the new Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria, clearly validates the widespread belief that people who manipulate public …

…’the way that leads to future termination of corruption is the correction of past corruption, For when it is known that those who were corrupt did not get away with it, prospective cheats should think twice before embarking on the negative venture’ -Wale Onyemakinde, the Guardian Newspapers of May 8, …